Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1887-09-22
DAKOTA ITEMS.

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In the territory up to Sept. lst, the
railroad mileage for 1887 is 49l.
The Jamestown Daily Alert has
changed to an evening paper instead Of
morning.
The fall term of the Dakota supreme
court will be held at Deadwood, COM
mencing Tuesday, October 4.
Gov. Church thinks he cannot organ
ize Church and Pierce counties, on ac-
count of an imperfection in the law.
Well diggers at Roscoe struck forty
five feet of water at a distance Of go
feet.
The corn crop of Dakota is variously
estimated at from 100000 to 45,OOO,-
600 bushels.
The Bismarck Tribune is confident
that Hon. John ID. Lawler, of Mitchell,
will soon be appointed territorial treas
| urer.
Gen. Beadle has lecture he is de-
livering in some portions of the terri
tory, entitled "The Evolution of Lib
erty."
There are ninety-three criminal cases
upon the court calendar in Edmunds
county, where Judge Spencer is holding
court.
Tuesday. Yankton had large public
meeting, at which the future of the
town and its present needs were dis
cuSSed.
The Northwestern Transportation
company loaded Tuesday "a carload of
bullion at the Iron Hill smelter, near
Dead wood.
Ex-Gov. Pierce in the Pioneer Press
says the country between Oakes and
Redfeld is one continuous village of
grain stacks.
1t is reported on good authority that
the Duluth, Huron and Denver railroad
company has decided to locate it's shops
at Watertown.
Geo. Rnmple, a young Bohemian
farmer twenty miles southwest OF
Faulkton suicided by shooting Satur-
day. Insanity was the cause.
The Scotland academy has been des-
ignated by the territorial board of edu-
cation to give normal instructions
Tuition in the teachers course will be
free.
Seeing the flags flying from several
places on the fair grounds at Aberdeen
a wag said, "what are the flags up for 2?
and then he added "this amt in the
United States"
Michael Thiel, of Caledonia, took his
sisters illegitimate child out into the
yard and wrung its neck. The mother
was so shocked by the awful occur
renee that she will die.
A lette- from DR.. Conkey, president
of the Duluth, Huron and Denver rail
way, says it has not been sold to the
Minneapolis and Pacific. and there is
no probability of its being.
Secretary Lamar's recent order re-
storing to settlement the indemnity
lands of the Northern Pacific Railroad
company will be carried into effect. 1t
is estimated that 100000 acres are
involved.
Mayor Teller, of Yankton, has an.
nounced the bridge charter owned by
himself and others will be given to the
Manitoba or any other company that
would build a road and bridge across
the river.
Grading Is being done on the Forest
City railroad at the rate of a mile a
day. Where the road is going or under
what system it is, is not known, but
there is evidently good strong backing
behind it.
Mrs. S. B. Warren, bride of two
weeks, was thrown from a buggy at
Sioux Falls. Both of her legs were
broken and she was otherwise injured
She is at the Cataract house in very
precarious condition.
The Yankton Telegram says fresh
overtures are being made to the asylum
trustees, and that the church admins.
! tratiOn is anxious to relieve itself in
some way of the odium attathed to it
by means of its course.
Blunt people are talking of sending
an exhibit of the products of Hughes
county to the territorial fair, at Mitch
ell going with it from thence to the
corn palace exhibition in Sioux City
and finally bringing up at the exposi-
ton in Chicago.
About thirty bucks OF the Yankton
Sioux tribe of Indians upon the Yank-
ton reservation threaten violence to
the surveyors and to the Indians who
are receiving allotments of land under
the severalty law. The allotment of
land doesn't suit them.
! Armour has the father of squashes
The Tribune says Commander Duncan
has squash growing on his place that
was put on the scale Tuesday and tip.
ped the beam to los pounds; and the
monster is still in the prime of youth
growing longer, and taller, and wider
and-it will be weighed again in few
days.
Judge Moody says "Goy. Church is
intlicting great and unjust cruelty upon
the poor insane wretches of Dakota by
delaying the building of the asylum at
Yankton. The loss Of the entire $780,
600 cannot be compared to the suffer,
ings of these people. Owing to his
Withholding these appropriations the
insane are lodged in county jails, and
you know that the majority of these
institutions are reeking with filth and
vermin, poor ventilation, etc.
An Indian was tried recently at the